It would be irresponsible to neglect people that need our help in my mind.

You may as well say it's irresponsible to have children when there's factories closing down and and a housing shortage, but most people would be horrified at the suggestion they should be allowed to procreate.

Its a Tory policy started by John Major who signed the Maastricht Treaty. (It allowed the current influx of economic migrants.)At that time Labour opposed it and were gleefully accused of racism by the right.

They were too scared of the spin to oppose the policy when it came up again in later years.

The right dont care if labour is cheap and plentiful so it wont ever stop.

...I'm not talking about people fleeing ISIS. They need and deserve all the help they can get. As the Jews did when they tried to leave Nazi Germany but were blocked by anti Semetic quotas. There's no difference IMO.

As an example, there is already huge unemployment in areas of South Wales, all industry has more or less ceased.How will areas like that cope if even more people settle there?There aren't any jobs for the people as it is. They are under huge strain.Whole communities are collapsing.

not sure how factory closures is relevant to this discussion - most migrants who come to Britain do so to a job and they make a net contribution to the economy - they more than pay their way, many doing jobs local people do not do, and in my limited experience make a far better job.

The housing shortage is a different issue. This is a national scandal and is a direct result of Thatcher's right to buy scheme for council house tenants. Don't have a problem with selling houses to long term tenants but the real scandal was that she forbade councils from using the money received in the sale to build more houses - her legacy will run for generations in Britain and it is a negative legacy.

None EU immigration is tightly controlled but we can't do anything about EU citizens coming here, at least until the referendum if the UK votes out.

To answer the question - no it is not irresponsible as immigrants bring huge benefits to our country. We should perhaps be encouraging the indigenous neer do wells to emigrate.

wonderingminds so, this is totally an opinion you have based on economic necessity and not any kneekjerk xenophoboa?

Most immigrants come with a skill, and want to be economically active - creating wealth, paying tax and so on. People wo immigrate are often the most resourceful and go-getting from the communities that they've left.

In contrast, you typically have to wait years and years before babies are economically active, and pay into the system before they take out. And people in the UK are still recklessly having babies all over the place, the selfish, economically-illiterate rotters.

I look forward to your campaign to ban having children, and encouraging immigration.